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Lesson Plan G2 the Stars Student Worksheet: Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram Lesson Plan G2 Activity Part Two • Student worksheets The Stars • Pens or pencils Activity Part Three • 1 small flashlight Introduction • 1 large and bright flashlight • A room that can be darkened We see the stars as tiny points of light in the sky. They may all look the same but they are not. They range in size, color, temperature, power, and Time Required life spans. Hands-on Activity Part One: 10 minutes In these hands-on and Starry Night computer Hands-on Activity Part Two: 30 minutes exercises, your students will explore the nature Hands-on Activity Part Three: 10 minutes of stars. They will see how different from one Starry Night Computer Exercise: 35-45 minutes another individual stars can be. They will observe a glowing body as it changes tempera- ture and color. Your students will plot some Conceptual Background properties of stars and learn how these different properties of stars are related to one another All stars form from cold clouds of hydrogen gas and to the mass of the star. They will learn that that collapse under their own gravity. The center the apparent visual brightness of a star is not a of the cloud heats up from the resulting increase good indicator of its distance. In Starry Night in pressure and friction. Eventually the heat and they will examine several different stars and pressure are great enough to force hydrogen they will see how some stars end their lives. nuclei to fuse together and form helium nuclei. This nuclear fusion process releases energy and the star shines with its own light. Key Concepts Stars are made of mostly hydrogen, which is I Stars are born, evolve and die. the most abundant element in the universe. Stars I Stars have a life cycle that depends on the use hydrogen as a building block to make heavier initial mass of the star. elements. As a star ages it fuses hydrogen into I The composition and structure of stars helium, and later the helium will be fused into changes at different stages in their life cycle. a series of increasingly heavier elements. As I Stars in the Milky Way can be different from the stars age and continue the fusion process, the Sun in size, temperature, age and brightness. percentage of hydrogen in the stars decreases I The Sun is a main sequence star. and the percentage of other heavier elements I Stars can be described as having apparent increases. The heaviest elements are fused in magnitude, absolute magnitude and luminosity. the most massive stars. This planet and all that it I Other planets orbit around other stars. contains, plus other planets in the solar system I Elements heavier than lithium are created in and around other stars, comes from the star-for- the cores of stars. mation process. Most of the characteristics of a star are gov- Materials Required erned by how much mass the star contains when it first forms. Low mass stars survive for Activity Part One billions of years. They burn their fuel slowly • Small lamp with a clear (not frosted) bulb and at low temperatures. They die a quiet death • Electrical socket with a dimmer switch and leave behind a small white dwarf star that (rheostat) slowly cools into a black dwarf. www.starrynight.com G2.1 Starry Night High School High mass stars only survive for a few million years. They burn their fuel at extremely high temperatures and rates. Big stars die in spectacular supernova explosions. The supernova can leave behind either a neutron star or a black hole. Electrical Outlet Even in a telescope, stars are so far away that Lamp with they look like tiny points of light. But stars come unfrosted bulb. in a range of sizes, colors, temperatures, energy outputs, and life spans. Most stars are small, dim, red, and cool. They are so small and dim that we can’t see them. When we look into the night sky we see mostly the big, hot, and bright stars. We think of the Sun as an average star. But if we look at all the stars in the Milky Way galaxy, Rheostat we find that 90 per cent of them are smaller, (Dimmer switch) dimmer and cooler than the Sun. So, although the Sun fits in the middle of the range of stellar properties, it is bigger, brighter and more powerful than most of the stars in our galaxy. Activity Part One Figure G2.1 Set up to demonstrate the relationship between color and temperature. Stars are hot, glowing objects. This activity is a simple demonstration that shows the relationship between the temperature and color of another hot, glowing object. Our Earth-based experiences often give us the idea that blue is cool or cold, Activity Part One and red is hot, as in “red hot.” With stars, the Discussion Questions opposite is true. It’s all a matter of scale. A. When the lamp is turned down very low, 1. Set up the lamp with the clear, unfrosted what color is the filament in the bulb? bulb so all the students can easily see it. B. When the lamp is turned on full power, is 2. Plug the lamp into a rheostat or an electrical the filament hotter or cooler than when it outlet that is connected to a dimmer is turned down low? switch. C. What color is the filament when the lamp 3. Darken the room. is turned on at full power? 4. Turn on the lamp and dim it until it is just D. What progression of colors did you observe barely on. as the lamp was turned from minimum power up through full power? 5. Ask the students to observe and note the color of the glowing filament in the bulb. E. At what power level did the lamp glow most brightly? Why? 6. Slowly turn up the bulb so it gets brighter and brighter (hotter and hotter). Many students think of something very hot as 7. Have the students observe and note the being “red hot.” They seldom think of blue as changing color of the glowing lamp filament. being a “hot” color. With the lamp turned down to a minimum, the filament glows a dim red Starry Night High School G2.2 www.starrynight.com color. The filament glows because it is hot, but it Activity Part Two can get much hotter and glow much more brightly. This is a graphing activity that shows the rela- As the lamp is turned up the filament receives tionship between color, temperature and mass more power. It gets hotter and glows brighter. in stars. Table G2a Star Comparison Chart Its color progresses from dim red to orange to gives data for 12 stars. yellow to white. As it gets hotter it glows brighter. There is a relationship between the Your students will use this data to make a temperature and the color of the glowing fila- Hertzsprung-Russell (H-R) diagram that plots ment. If the filament could be made to glow star color versus temperature. A clear relation- even hotter, it would progress from white to ship will emerge. Astronomers call this curve blue in color. At even higher temperatures it on the graph the main sequence. The main would glow with invisible ultraviolet light. sequence is where stars spend most of their lifetimes. Main sequence stars are powered by Most students have seen this color progression hydrogen fusion. from red through yellow to blue in the flame of a propane torch or a propane camp stove. The As you examine the data in Table G2a, you will cool flame is red or orange and the hottest notice a pattern that follows through, more or flame is blue. The same color progression holds less, in descending order, for color, temperature, true for the stars. The coolest stars at 3,000 mass and power. degrees Celsius glow red. The hottest stars have surface temperatures in the tens of thousands of The students’ plots should look similar to the degrees and they glow with a fierce blue light. one shown in figure G2.2. Such stars are extremely bright, powerful, and easy to see from great distances. Much of their radiation is in the form of energetic ultraviolet, X-ray and gamma radiation. Table G2a Star Comparison Chart Star Color Temperature in Mass in terms Power in Radius in terms Distance in degrees Celsius of solar mass Suns of Solar Radii Light Years Sun Yellow 5,700 1 1 1 8 light min. Proxima Centauri Red 2,300 0.1 Unknown Unknown 4 Barnard’s Star Red 3,000 0.1 0.01 0.2 6 Epsilon Eridani Orange 4,600 0.1 0.4 0.8 11 Alpha Centauri Yellow 6,000 1 2 1.4 4 Altair White 8,000 3 12 2 17 Vega White 9,900 3 61 3.3 25 Sirius White 10,000 3 27 2 8.6 Rigel White 10,000 3 52,000 92 777 Regulus White 11,000 8 221 4.3 78 Hadar Blue 25,500 20 79,000 24 526 Alnilam Blue 27,000 20 112,000 44 1,360 www.starrynight.com G2.3 Starry Night High School 1. Give each student a Hertzsprung-Russell D. Look carefully at the data in table G2a. Can diagram worksheet. you see a relationship between power, color and temperature? 2. Use the data from Table G2a to plot each of the 12 stars on the H-R diagram. Star E. Where does the Sun fit into the pattern? color is on the horizontal axis and star temperature is on the vertical axis.
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